Alien 3 (DVD) Reviews

Any list of great sequels would have to include the 1986 film Aliens, a rollercoaster follow up to the Ridley Scott classic with great characters and bravura direction by a young and inventive James Cameron. The only problem was that, somewhere along the line, if 20th Century Fox wanted to wring more money from the franchise (and of course they ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on The Student Room and Flixster Alien 3, although the worst of the initial four films, is still a solid action film thanks to the presence of Sigourney Weaver in her most famous role, as badass soldier Ellen Ripley, and also thanks to the direction of David Fincher who, despite numerous fallouts with Fox over ...  Read the complete review

Once again the Alien series fails to disappoint with the third installment Alien 3. Alien 3 picks of shortly after the events of Aliens, Ripley on board a ship with her fellow survivors, soon crashes into a planet designed only to harbor the galaxies nastiest criminals in a prison colony. The cause of the crash soon becomes apparent that the alien ...  Read the complete review

Few films have had as much troubled production as Alien 3. Director David Fincher was brought into the project late into its development; there were numerous creative differences in scriptwriting; not to mention all the pressure of living up to the successes of the two near-perfect blockbusters that preceded it. Fincher reportably disowned the ...  Read the complete review

As the title suggests, this is the third instalment in the Alient series. In this film Ellen Ripley's cryo tube is ejected, along with the other survivors from Aliens, and lands on a planet which is used as a maximum security prison. Of course, Ripley is the only survivor and is once again left to fend for herself. However, Ms Ripley ...  Read the complete review

In a moment of boredom and unwilling to sit through Jeremy bloody Kyle yet again I shuffled through my DVD collection and, fancying something in a sci-fi vain, settled for 'Alien 3: 2-Disc Special Edition'. Not the best movie on the shelf but one I hadn't seen for a while. Unlike Jeremy bloody Kyle! This, the third instalment of the ...  Read the complete review

A homage to the tense feeling of the original Alien film. - Advantages: The tense feeling from the original film is recreated, The Alien is in it! (Possibly the greatest monster of all time!) - Disadvantages: Wont they ever give Ripley a break from the Alien!?, Fans of Aliens may be disappointed by lack of action, Theres only 1 Alien in it

It seems as though the movie producers have hatched a plan – Alien was met with great success, Aliens (the sequel) pulled in huge numbers of people two – hey, here’s an idea, lets make ANOTHER Alien film! Now, I really enjoy the Alien movies, all of them are good and all of them are different in their own unique ways. ...  Read the complete review

Calling Ripley, calling Ripley.... Dear old Sigourney, you feisty vixen, you'll be famous for ever for one reason and one reason only. Forget 'Working Girl' (I wish) and 'Gorillas In The Mist' (if only), Ms Weaver's claim to fame is undoubtedly down to just one thing - her lengthy, slip-slidy and very slimily ...  Read the complete review

Alien 3 is the imaginative title applied to the third installment of the popular Alien licence. Alien was a brilliant piece of movie making, like a haunted house in space, packed with a claustrophobic tension which could not fail to have you on the edge of your seat throughout. Aliens, James Cameron now in the director's chair, saw the ...  Read the complete review

I remember walking into the cinema in thinking to myself "I hope this is as good as the last film". I mean, I loved "Aliens". I also liked Alien. But I did feel like this film let the side down very badly. Alien 3 seemed to follow a new line of cinematography. It appeared to be the directors attempt an an ...  Read the complete review

Alien had the tension and sense of danger, Aliens upped the action but had great characters and an excellent ending. So what was left for Alien 3 ? Well after a few ideas and a few directors like Renny Harlin, the reigns fell to one David Fincher who at the time had only directed commercials and music videos. it helped that these were ...  Read the complete review

This film I think was just as good as the first alien film, except with the enhancement in special effects the film better and more realistic. It was set on the prison planet where Ripleys escape pod crashed, but she doesn’t know that she has a queen alien inside, but when she find right at the end she kill herself to stop earth ship from ...  Read the complete review

While preferable to ALIENS, which was unimaginative and mechanical, ALIEN 3 doesn't come close to the original's all-out brilliance; in fact, taking into account the apparent hard work and thought that went into it, it isn't even good. There were numerous reports that the preproduction stage was a mess here, with the screenplay being ...  Read the complete review

A poor third in stallment to the Alien saga, with Ripley finding herself marooned on a penal planet designed for society's sickest loonies. The tone is downbeat with the Newt and Hicks characters (who'd done so well to survive 'Aliens' intact) killed off by calllous scriptwriters before the opening credits have even elapsed. ...  Read the complete review

"The Bitch is back!" was the slogan for this, the third in the 'Alien' saga, although I’m not sure whether this is referring to the alien or to Lt. Ripley! Nevertheless, both are back for the second sequel to the highly successful sci-fi chiller 'Alien'. Following on almost immediately from the end of the last film, ...  Read the complete review

ALIEN 3 FOX Sci-Fi Widescreen 2.35:1, Anamorphic - Enhanced for 16x9 viewing Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Color 115 minutes COMMENTS Sometimes a third try is a ‘charm,’ others - it’s a strike out. Director David Fincher’s installment in the ALIEN series wasn’t a jewel or a ...  Read the complete review

This is the third film in the Alien series of films, and is not one of the best. In my opinion the first two films are by far and away better than this, although this is in turn better than the last film, Alien Reserection. This film tells of what happens to the survivors of the marine mission sent to an alien infested planet when they ...  Read the complete review

At the time of its release (1992) this film got a bad rap. The director, David Fincher (who went on to make the excellent SEVEN) was following the work of two standout directors, Ridley Scott and James Cameron. He also had to go against the numerous aliens which had appeared in the second sequel and instead revert to the single monster in the same ...  Read the complete review

After the suspense/horror of the first movie, the action of the second, there needed to be something different for this movie to work, and in my opinion, it did. Riply and co crash land on a prison planet, which has no guns, no nothing, offensive weapons are a big no no. Quickly recovered from the crash site, we find that a number of the crew ...  Read the complete review